{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Business of Open Source","title":"Building a Sustainable Platform With Abigail Cabunoc Mayes","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/e593ac46\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1438,"description":"\"Fueling a culture of openness in innovation and research.\" That slogan is well known to Abigail Cabunoc Mayes, a leader in GitHub's open-source maintainer program. With a background in open science, Mayes felt right at home when jumping to open source and mentoring many developers at the Cloud-based Hosting service.On this episode of The Business of Open Source, listen to Mayes speak on sustainability and resilience in building a platform for developers and what makes a robust and sustainable environment. Mayes also talks about financial stability and models in the open source world and what it truly means to break from a main backer and build on your own.Highlights:Supporting \"maintainers\" (3:02)Succession planning (3:38)Being resilient in sustainability (5:40)Building financially without company backing (6:29)GitHub experimentation (10:42)Strategies for critical projects that are lower in the stack (11:55)Technical sustainability (13:47)Hypothetical financial models (19:33)Links:AbigailLinkedInTwitterGitHub","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/8IkNaFmPeP0cacpN72wvWvmuTJkRWMTzK4anhRhTwJg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzEwNTI5LzE2NTY1/MTIwMDAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}